Wichita eagle., 1887-11-29

DuJ L d1o want 70 Know wnau was In
the bundle, and did want it found, be-
cause it might have been something else
that wasn't moral and financial ruin.
The months wore away, and it was six
months since l had first heard of my
bundle It was December, and my sister
was coming home, ard all that time had
passed without having heard word
about the bundle. I went to New York
to meet Mrs. Bowen, but | had a dread
| full cold On my lungs and could scarcely
! speak, and as | was visiting far up street
/ | did not go to the dock TO meet her but
waited till she reached the hotel; and !
walked into the Brevoort house half an
hour after she reached there. After five
minutes Of saying, How do you do?''
care you awfully tired:' "Did you have
q rough tirnes'' ''Too bad you were
sicl1r There never is anything else TO
say when your dearest friends have been
gone d few years-at least, not at first,
said:
For PHYS sake, do tell me what was
in that bundle you sent ne"'
Ny sister was reading one of the heap
of letters that had been handed her just
as I entered the room. After.a few sec
onds she raised her eyes and dtopped the
letter.
spoke of that. I've been wondering what
in the world you meant in all your
later letters by forever asking me about
q bundle"
eyes, the bundle 90 tell me about it,
kept writing and writing you about it,
and you never answered. Why didn' t
your
eyes, - said my sister, ''your letters be-
came really quite frantic about bundle.
Now will you tell me what you meant
by it?''
[ began to open my mouth, when she
said:
"You see couldn't make head or tail
of it, and writing mixes things up SO,
thought | would wait until / saw you"
''Well, what was in it?'' said.
ON what?''
She locked extremely puzzled.
In what: / almost shrieked. Iwould
have shrieked If | could have, but Ey
cold was so bad that / could just speak
above a whisper 'Why, the bundle, Of
course"
what bundle?'' And she really did
speak very loud. ''What bundle? I don't
know what on earth you mean"
THE bundle you sent me by Mr..
Haven What other bundle can I mean'"
''The bundle / sent you by Mr. Haven:
never sent you any bundle by Mr.
Haven't
fell back in my chair and gGsped.
couldn't speak for a moment, and then l
repeated: q.
Never sent me any bundle by Mr..
Haven't
sNeverl What an ideal What made
you think did?''
When | could collect my senses and my
breath, told her the sto-y from beginning
to end. and then she was as astOnisked
and mystiied as we all had been. She
solennIy asserted that she never had sent
me any bundle by any one, and that Il she
had ever sent me a present, il wasn't at
all likely she would have forgotten it.
And that was perfectly true. She could
not have forgotten it il she had sent me q
gift, ard l knew it. But on the other
hand, there was Mr.. Haven and his posi-
tive assertion, and hurt feelings, etc.
From that day to this it has remained
an absolute mystery. The word OF Mrs.
Bowen is not TO be disputed: neither is
the word OF Mr. Haven.
There have been a great many explana,-
tons of this affair Of the bundle, ana
many questions asked. This is e speci- !
men:
''Why didn't you go to the Twenty |
third street office; it would naturally |
have gone there from the Brunswick'
But it was never sent"
"Oh! yes, to be surel'
NY sister still says she never sent q |
bundle: but Mr. Haven said the last time |
| knew Of his speaking OF it:
- took q bundle just as / said did"
If this is SO, what did become Of The |
Bundle. "-katharine s. Foot III Cosmos |
politan.